My menus and such are tilted

[mthill77]

My on screen menus (all of them as far as I can tell) are noticeably tilted. The regular broadcast seems to be ok. Is there anything I can do to adjust it, like I would with my PC monitor? It is starting to bother me.

:shrug:

[Scott Greczkowski]

What kind of receiver do you have?

And this just start happening or has it been going on for a long time?

More details please so our experts know how to help you out.

BTW mthill77 Welcome to DBSTalk.COM! :hi:

[Jacob S]

It could also be the television set in that older tv's tend to cut off menu screens and do other things as well.

[Steve Mehs]

Do you mean that, lets say for example you go to the Favorites menu, at the top there's the Dish logo followed by FAVO and half an R? This is normal for OpenTV recievers.

[mthill77]

The TV is only about a year old and its a 27inch Panasonic Tau (not sure of model number right now). The receiver is the PVR721 (I've had it about 4 weeks now) and it has 109 software.

An example of what is happening is play breakout without the background so that the TV broadcast is playing behind. The game overlay is tilted to the left. I first noticed on the guide becasue the border last line on the bottom disappears about 2/3 across the screen (from L to R).

What is seems is that all of the digitally created overlay is aligned improperly but that the broadcast does not exhibit this.

If while watching a program I press info and the transpartent box covers most of the screen, there is a distinct sliver down the right side that goes from a sharp point at the bottom to 1 inch wide at the top (on my tv).

I only have the one television so I can't try it on another.

[Scott Greczkowski]

Go into the prefrences screen, there is an option for More Prefrences, in that screen there is a screen adjustment feature when lets you center things on your screen.

Give that a shot, it should correct your problem. :)

[mthill77]

OK...I tried the preferences area and adjusted the position to be centered in the screen, but it did nothing to fix the tilt. I may have to call Dish on this one...maybe its a defective unit.

Now that I have noticed it, it bugs the hell out of me.

[raj2001]

Originally posted by mthill77
OK...I tried the preferences area and adjusted the position to be centered in the screen, but it did nothing to fix the tilt. I may have to call Dish on this one...maybe its a defective unit.

Now that I have noticed it, it bugs the hell out of me.

I am not so sure this is caused by your DishPVR. This is most likely the deflection yoke on your TV not perfectly positioned, or some internal controls not adjusted properly. You can probably get some test patterns on DVD to verify this. You won't notice it with broadcast TV. It also depends on the colors and stuff that your TV is currently displaying.

[DishDude1]

I agree with the yoke theory...I'd try the menu on your vcr and see if it is tilted.

[Guest]

I have a 27" Tau. On mine I needed to adjust the geomagnetic correction. It is in the setup menu, other adjustments, geomagnetic correction. A horizontal bar appears and you can adjust from +10 to -10 until it is level. If that doesn't work you can alway shim the lazy boy to the same angle!

[TomCat]

Likely not the PVR. Try a channel like FOX news (if you can stomach it) that has crawls and continuous graphic boxes. This should provide a frame of reference to check the tilt.

[jannlinder]

Most Sony's have an angle adjustment in any TV 27" or above since around 1999. I have had to adjust mine too...made me feel like i got a defective unit, but truly I did not...Everything else is fine. I am actually quite happy that Sony put that setting in the Menus.

My $.02...Jann

[mthill77]

It was the TV. I set the geomagnetic correction (maxed out to fix it) and its almost perfect now. Thanks for the ideas.

[Bob Haller]

If the deflection yoke oisnt level it can cause this or did years ago on old tvs. My neighbor had one when I was a kid that was tilted. Later whren I got older I looked for the cause out of curosity. Went back and mentioned it to them found their dad was a self taught tv repairman.

[cnsf]

In the future, you could always just tilt your head to compensate...

:D :D

[Nick]

If the picture from a broadcast is not tilted, it can't be the yoke causing the tilt of overlay graphics.